MILK ATTACK PUTS SMITH AT BAY, BUT HE SEEMS WINNER
My Impressions of America
INDICTED DRY CHIEF SAYS MASON GOT $26,000 IN GRAFT
This Evening Star front page of October 29, 1926, carried three pieces tied to the politics and celebrity of that autumn's campaign season. G. Gould Lincoln reported from New York that Republican nominee Ogden Mills had made milk, rather than liquor, the talk of the governor's race against Al Smith, yet judged Smith the likely winner after a gloomy Republican convention troubled by dry defections. Queen Marie of Rumania opened a signed column on her first night in Washington, praising the station, recalling her welcome by Mr. Kellogg and his wife in the President's name, and complaining good-humouredly about the photographers' flashes. An Associated Press dispatch from Chicago reported that indicted former Illinois prohibition director Ralph W. Stone testified he paid $26,000 in graft over sacramental wine permits to dry state senator Lowell B. Mason, who faced re-election the following Tuesday.
FASCISM IS GAINING STRENGTH PREMIER MUSSOLINI STATES
KLAN ACTIVITIES IN INDIANA ELECTIONS FEATURE HEARINGS
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page for October 29, 1926, set a home-state farm result beside two wire stories about politics. Hal Stephens reported that Macon county, showing off the agricultural resources of central Alabama, won first place among non-professional county exhibits at the State Fair of Alabama, with Elmore county second and Shelby county third. From Rome, the Associated Press reported that Premier Mussolini, speaking to a vast crowd of Black Shirts in the coliseum on the fourth anniversary of the march on Rome, again stressed Fascism's strength, youthful vigor and determination. From St. Louis, the AP reported that half a dozen members and former members of the Ku Klux Klan told the Senate campaign funds committee that the Klan had been active across a wide range of state and national politics; the headline put Indiana's elections at the center of the hearings.
This partial reading of the London Evening Advertiser for October 29, 1926, covers three reports. A local story told how Mrs. Percy Sherritt of 58 Gunn Street ran back into her burning frame cottage and carried out her sleeping 2-month-old daughter a moment before the bed caught fire; a defective chimney was blamed, and the mother was left suffering from shock. A lecture report described a State University speaker telling teachers that insanity and dispositions are not inherited, only a nervous system liable to break under strain, so that proper self-care could prevent insanity. A New York item quoted an oil company president saying skywriters made their smoke by dribbling old crank-case oil into hot exhaust pipes, and that garages had begun burning such waste oil for heat.
Le Figaro's front page led with a signed column by François Coty arguing that France had to face the Franco-Italian problem head-on. He dismissed the charge that Italy had pushed Spain to demand a privileged position in Tangier, and claimed the incident had been staged to damage Franco-Italian friendship. From the Douai assizes, a special correspondent opened his report by recalling Professor Gilbert Ballet's view that criminal responsibility is a question for jurors, not for medicine. A short item from Bombay described a fakir who drank prussic acid in front of doctors and seemed to enjoy it.
This Vienna issue led with a sharp editorial against Friedrich Adler. Writing in the socialist monthly Der Kampf, Adler had criticised the Austrian Social Democrats' draft programme as too mild and, according to the paper, demanded that "liberation of the working people" be replaced by "class rule of the proletariat". The paper mocked this as naive and treated it as a danger to democracy. A second piece printed a letter rejecting national conceit and hatred and any claim that one nation or race is superior, arguing that every national virtue brings a matching vice. A short dispatch from Barcelona reported fourteen arrests, including a doctor and a lawyer, over nightly fireworks disturbances during the stay of the King and Primo de Rivera, whose movements were kept under tight guard.
This front page of L'Écho d'Alger set metropolitan finance beside Algerian local politics and Moroccan court ceremony. It printed Raymond Poincaré's letter to M. Simon, chairman of the Chamber's Finance Commission, about the government's amending proposals for the 1927 draft budget, which had to reflect administrative reforms enacted under the law of 3 August 1926. From the Algiers General Council it reported councillor Mourgues's complaint that the services in Algiers had no means to fight an anthrax outbreak among livestock in the Bouïra district, and the Prefect's reply that the Institut Pasteur d'Alger had already sent vaccine while serum was requested from Paris. From Morocco it described the wedding procession of the Sultan's sons, at which Resident-General Steeg, at the Sultan's request, decorated leading dignitaries including the pasha of Marrakesh, El Glaoui.
Yesterday's lecture at the Association of Annamite Industrialists and Merchants
Notice to our readers in the interior
This front page of L'Écho annamite, a French-language Saigon paper, opened with a signed column by E. Dejean de la Batie. He argued that colonial Cochinchina was built on inequality between conquerors and conquered, and pointed to a paradox: naturalized Annamites born in Cochinchina could opt to vote in the native electoral college, a right denied to French-born citizens and to naturalized people from other parts of the Indochinese Union. A news report described a packed evening lecture at the Association of Annamite Industrialists and Merchants. There Lê van Gông set out an economic development programme and a plan for a bank, and the audience, which included Bui Quang Chiêu, said it wanted a credit institution limited at first to simple advances. A short notice told provincial readers that a named collector would call to recover unpaid subscriptions, and invited them to ask him for proof of identity.
The Journal de Genève's front page of 29 October 1926 opened with an editorial signed "W. M." arguing that the British Empire, whose statesmen were then meeting in an imperial conference in London, formed a second league of nations, and that Lloyd George had not measured what he did by seating the dominions and India in the League as equals. A local editorial by "Ed. Ch." took up the cantonal government's bill to merge several communes with the city of Geneva, noting that a Grand Council committee had unanimously refused to back it. A third piece by "R. P." pressed Federal Councillor Schulthess to release in full the expert reports behind his claim that the federal grain board had always bought well.
This partial reading of Politika for 29 October 1926 covers two pieces. In 'Events in Bulgaria', the paper said two facts best defined Bulgarian politics: an attempt, which it called purely Germanophile, to draw the Bulgarian People's Agrarian Union, described as the country's strongest party, toward the extreme reactionary and fascist right; and the Lyapchev government's unreserved orientation toward England and Italy. The second piece, a memoir headed 'Before 29 May 1903', recalls the days after elections held before the 1903 coup in Serbia, when the political atmosphere seemed to lighten and groups of peasants accompanied the narrator's husband from the foreign ministry to the family home. The memoir text is only partly legible.
Sir Karl Knudsen's full explanation of why he finds it quite fabulous that the Norwegian state has escaped the crisis with a minimum of liability and outlay.
The cattle disease in Søgne is believed with certainty to be foot-and-mouth disease.
Lars Oftedal's position — Gunnar Knudsen's premises.
Aftenposten's page of 29 October 1926 printed in full the testimony that Sir Karl Knudsen gave before the Court of Impeachment. He said the Norwegian state had come through the banking crisis in a "fabulously easy" way thanks to a conditional guarantee of 5 May and a declaration of 28 May. From Sørlandet the paper reported that veterinarians had examined the sick animals at the Traane farm in Søgne for three hours and confirmed foot-and-mouth disease, causing a great stir across the region. An editorial criticized the former social minister Lars Oftedal for refusing any part in the new spirits law after prohibition had been voted down, summing up his stance as "all or nothing."
ANOTHER LETTER FROM MR. KNIBBE TO THE SYNOD AT ASSEN.
ON THE ROAD TO SOCIALISM.
NEIGHBOURHOOD ASSOCIATION “UNITY”.
This Leidsch Dagblad page of 29 October 1926 carried church, political and neighbourhood news. It printed an extract from a further reply by the jurist P. G. Knibbe, a Free University alumnus, to the Reformed Synod of Assen, remarking that his questions were at the centre of attention and had just been discussed again in De Heraut. A report on a well-attended meeting, mostly of students and chaired by Mr. Eisma, described a speaker who disclaimed any wish to rouse his audience and instead set out to trace society's development towards socialism. A third report described a ceremony of the neighbourhood association “Eensgezindheid”, where girls sang a song dedicated to the board and the chairman, visibly moved, received a flag whose golden letters he took to stand for the association's future.
The Chancellor and M. Schacht Explain the Financial Plan's Proposals to President Hindenburg
The Prince of Wales Has Arrived in Paris
Le Petit Matin's front page for 29 October 1926 was dominated by the aftermath of the Thoiry talks. In a signed foreign-policy column, Henry Barde answered Italian newspapers, notably the Tribuna and the Corriere della Sera, which had suggested before the Italian ambassador's call on Briand that the Franco-German rapprochement was faltering and that France might turn back toward Italy; Barde insisted that the Thoiry conversations sat within the Locarno agreements that Italy itself had signed. A Berlin dispatch reported that the Chancellor and M. Schacht briefed President Hindenburg on the Thoiry financial plan, and that German political circles expected long negotiations because France had postponed ratifying the Mellon-Bérenger debt accord, seen there as the first condition for any American credit. A short report described photographers firing magnesium flashes and suburban crowds cheering as the Prince of Wales left a Paris station.
The 7th Round of the South American Football Championship Was Played Yesterday
CAPTAINS MENDEZ AND NAZASI SPEAK TO “LA NACION”
Marriages
La Nación of Santiago reported on the seventh round of the 1926 South American Football Championship, played the previous day against Bolivia. Its match report followed a passing move from Fernández to Castro to Scarone that ended when the Bolivian fullback Sainz, trying to block the shot, turned the ball into his own net, the sixth goal Bolivia conceded. Next to it the paper printed remarks from the two captains, Méndez and Nazasi, in which the 'Olympic captain' called the Bolivians' display that day their best so far. Elsewhere on the page, an advertisement headed 'Casamientos' (Marriages) spoke directly to women about 'horrible ailments' and dangerous genital disorders.
To resist the compulsory insurance law, Chile's shoe workers declared a strike
In Great Britain it is thought that the Cantonese Nationalists will fail in their attempt to organize China
Alex, Russian grand duke and spiritualist, believes the Soviet will fall soon
Crítica's page of 29 October 1926 carried three foreign reports. From Chile, it reported that shoe workers had gone on strike to resist the compulsory insurance law, and that parliamentary committees, reacting to the unrest, had resolved to ask the government to propose an amendment. On China, it relayed a view held in Great Britain that the Cantonese Nationalists would fail to organize the whole country but would keep and strengthen their influence in the south, leaving the problem of a China split into two powerful factions. From Paris, it quoted a Russian grand duke, described as a cousin of the former tsar and one of Europe's most enthusiastic spiritualists, predicting that Russia would overthrow the Soviet government within two years and establish a new government of peace.
The Celebration in the Capital and the Duce's Two Speeches
The Speech to the Avanguardisti
Il Piccolo's front page of 29 October 1926 marked the fourth anniversary of the March on Rome. In his message to the Blackshirts, Mussolini reviewed a year of foreign policy: after the debt settlements with the United States and Britain, Italy had signed a commerce and navigation treaty with Germany, an agreement with Britain on Abyssinia, and treaties with Siam, Spain and Romania. A report from Rome described Fascist columns assembling at 16 points before marching to Piazza Colonna, while avanguardisti from central Italy massed near Piazza dell'Esedra. In a speech at the Colosseum, Mussolini hailed the young avanguardisti as the hope of the Fatherland and the army of tomorrow.